What movies did you see in the 80s in theaters as a kid?

[Legato]

Unfortunately I wasn't born when any of the original Star Wars films were in theaters. Granted they were eventually re-released, but I don't think they quite had the same magic. I'm not saying that because I'm one of those people who hate the changes GL made(I've never seen the originals in their true form), but rather simply because SW's had already been firmly cemented in pop culture by then. Oddly enough I didn't get heavily into Star Wars until about 10-11 years ago when I was 16.



I'll admit when I saw the movie a few years I thought to myself "they didn't need to make him look like a monster since a normal Howie Mandel coming out from under your bed would be utterly terrifying".

I remember when seeing the ending of Little Monsters as a kid my first reaction was" What happened?" really it's like the film just ran out of time and they couldn't provide a proper ending.

Sadly I never got a chance to see the original trilogy in theaters as a kid either, mainly due to the fact that I was still too young to really appreciate them.

[Moriarty]

i was born in 82 and only remember watching a handful of movies. remember seeing The Land Before Time, Oliver and Company, The Fox and the Hound, Batman and Ghostbusters 2.

[TomServoFan]

Yea Ditto.

Whoa, Frank you saw the same movies like i did too?

[TomServoFan]

Oops accidental double post.

[Frank]

Whoa, Frank you saw the same movies like i did too?

I was there. Don't you remember? Seriously dude, I'm disappointed.

[TomServoFan]

i was born in 82 and only remember watching a handful of movies. remember seeing The Land Before Time, Oliver and Company, The Fox and the Hound, Batman and Ghostbusters 2.

Do you remember having LBT and Oliver with Batman merchandise? i had LBT t-shirt with PJs plus coloring books, stuffed Petrie, Pizza Hut puppets and that. I have Oliver stuff like a couple of t-shirts, PJs, the soundtrack on CD which i still own as it was my first CD as i dig Billy Joel/Huey Lewis music, stuffed Oliver, readalong with cassette, junior novel, Mcdonalds toys, mcdonalds ornuments, a jar with Oliver and Dodger on it, boardgame and all that. I had nearly all the Batman merchandise including the movie magazine to the cards plus i ate the cereal and got the video game for NES with the movie for Christmas the year it came out.

[blackphoenix]

We were too poor to go to the movies when I was a kid, so we had to wait to get them on home video. So I had to witness box office hits like Batman, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, etc. on my dad's VCR. Ah, the '80's...

[sHayden]

Was it Look Who's Talking that opened with sperm swimming? Because whatever movie that was I got dragged to the theater at a REALLY young age to see it, we walked in when that scene was happening and in a packed theater I shouted: "LOOK, TADPOLES!"

[Karl Cook]

Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
TRON
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid II
The Karate Kid III
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee II
The Golden Child
Big Trouble In Little China
Over The Top
Transformers: The Movie
The Last Starfighter
Flight Of The Navigator
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Batman
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Octopussy
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
The Rookie
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
E.T.
Roxanne
Return Of The Jedi

And I'm pretty sure that there are some films that I've forgotten about.

[listenuscrewheads]

Empire Strikes Back(the first SW film I saw)
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1st Indy film I saw)
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II(I don't recall going to see this, but I must've)
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV
Rocky IV
Return To Oz
one of the Police Academy films, the one with the skateboarders
Flash Gordon
Star Wars trilogy re-issue(I saw the trilogy back to back, on two seperate occasions)
E.T.
Big
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Batman
A View to a Kill
Karate Kid II
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Greystoke Legend of Tarzan

might be a couple I don't recall

also, didn't see this one in theatres, but was on the film set of a Tom Selleck film that was being shot in the summer of 83 in London. Our family walked into what we thought was a huge market, but it was a fake market, with Tom getting ready to ride through it on a motorbike, so we walked into the middle of that. But they were very nice about it, Tom Selleck sat down next to me and talked to me, gave me his autograph.

[rob fleming]

In order (as best I can remember)
Condor-man (my first movie)
Superman I&II (double billing)
Empire strikes back
Krull
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Transformers the Movie
Goonies
Back to the Future
Short Circuit
E.T.
Back to the Future part 2
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade
Look Who's Talking?
Batman

I'm missing a Roger Moore Bond film in there, but don't remember which one.
Being made to think about it my family never really went to see movies that much when I was a kid.

[whiteshark]

Not many as far as i remember.
I remember watching Ghostbusters 2 and Harry and the Hendersons .
And i remember being all happy one day due watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit,but i was not allowed to watch that movie.
Anyways i was more interested in watching VHS of cartoons as He-Man back then.

[G. Boney]

E.T., Gremlins, Conan the Barbarian, Stir Crazy, Rocky 4, Batman, Beat Street, Breakin', Harry and the Hendersons, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Ghostbusters 2, Crocodile Dundee 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3...I'm sure there are others. A couple of these were rated R so I was with my brother or a parent.

[dupersuper]

Superman I&II (double billing)

Oooooo, that sounds fun.